"shimmery" meaning in All languages combined

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    "shim‧mery"
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          "ref": "1875, E[lizabeth] Lynn Linton, “Truth and Seeming”, in Patricia Kemball. […], Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co., →OCLC, page 465",
          "text": "He had not known him at first; at least not for certain in the shimmery moonlight; the man he had seen looked younger and of lighter build, he said, and he had not taken him to be his old friend and mate; […]",
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        {
          "ref": "1966, Ray Bradbury, “The Trolley”, in S Is for Space, London: Granada Publishing, published 1983, page 221",
          "text": "And then, far off, around a curve of silver track, comes the trolley, balanced on four small steel-blue wheels, and it is painted the color of tangerines. Epaulets of shimmery brass cover it and pipings of gold; and its chrome bell bings if the ancient motorman taps it with a wrinkled shoe.",
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          "ref": "2009, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “The Arrangers of Marriage”, in The Thing Around Your Neck (A Borzoi Book), New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, page 180",
          "text": "[…] Aunty Ada would base her prostitute judgment on Nia’s lipstick, a shimmery orange, and the eye shadow—similar to the shade of the lipstick—that clung to her heavy lids.",
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        "shimmering, or shining with a faint, or intermittent or trembling gleam or light."
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          "Apparently",
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          "shimmering",
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          "shining",
          "shine#Verb"
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          "faint",
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          "intermittent",
          "intermittent"
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          "trembling",
          "trembling#Adjective"
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          "gleam",
          "gleam#Noun"
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          "light",
          "light#Noun"
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        "(Apparently) shimmering, or shining with a faint, or intermittent or trembling gleam or light."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "ashimmer"
        },
        {
          "word": "shining"
        }
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          "_dis1": "77 23",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "(apparently) shimmering, or shining with a faint, or intermittent or trembling gleam or light",
          "word": "chatoyant"
        }
      ]
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        "(Apparently) shaking or trembling."
      ],
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          "shaking",
          "shake#Verb"
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          "trembling",
          "tremble#Verb"
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        "(figuratively) (Apparently) shaking or trembling."
      ],
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      "ipa": "/ˈʃɪməɹi/",
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      "ipa": "/ˈʃɪməɹi/",
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      "ipa": "/ˈʃɪmɹi/",
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          "text": "And then, far off, around a curve of silver track, comes the trolley, balanced on four small steel-blue wheels, and it is painted the color of tangerines. Epaulets of shimmery brass cover it and pipings of gold; and its chrome bell bings if the ancient motorman taps it with a wrinkled shoe.",
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          "text": "[…] Aunty Ada would base her prostitute judgment on Nia’s lipstick, a shimmery orange, and the eye shadow—similar to the shade of the lipstick—that clung to her heavy lids.",
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        "(Apparently) shimmering, or shining with a faint, or intermittent or trembling gleam or light."
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        "(Apparently) shaking or trembling."
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      "sense": "(apparently) shimmering, or shining with a faint, or intermittent or trembling gleam or light",
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    }
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